Irregular Wars Wargaming

  Late last year I resolved that my main project for 2021 would be a small 28mm Trojan force. I've completed 28mm skirmish forces in the past, but never completed an army-level project in the over-sized 'big' scale that is 28mm, so I thought even a small army would get my year in. Of course we have been in lockdown since December, so I found myself with a few more moments to play with paint pots. The result: the small Trojan project (retrospectively termed 'phase 1') is completed. If I was going to be investing time into building the army, I wanted to ensure theat iw would be a flexible as possible in terms of which rule sets it could be used with. Hence, the four characters/commanders are singly based, but everything else is based on 60mm wide bases. 60x60 for the chariots, and 60x40 for the infantry. The choice of units was partly led by the different games I'd likely be playing - Fantastic Battles , l'Art de la Guerre and Hail Caesar - and partly by var...

The final pieces for this stage of ProjectTROY are a dynamic unit of Amazon warriors and a Trojan priest. The Amazon figures are from Lucid Eye and were an absolute joy to paint with crisp detail and plenty of variation (although the standard bearer is a converted sword-wielder with a standard from CP Models). The armour is very much Aegean-inspired rather than Classical and that suited the aesthetic I was after. The unit did cost about the same as the rest of my army put together, so they're not to be bought lightly. Height-wise, they would be on par with Eureka's Bronze Age Greeks, but the ladies all appear to have passed the (stereotyped) air hostess entrance exams as they are all very slender and conform to the same body shape. Due to the dynamic poses, I could only get five onto a 60x40mm base, but they really fill it.  Like their Trojan peers , the Amazons have been built to serve as a unit of three formed (or elite?) companies with shieldwall, long spears and mixed shoot...

What follows is an epic  Palaeo Diet: Pulp mini-campaign from Mark in Thailand following the adventures of an exploration & hunting party of the Ladies Chronographic Institute (LCI) as they venture into Pulpish areas of the Lower Fantasycene.  Here is a photo of the intrepid group ⬇️ Back Row: Catherine Morland (Antiquarian) (armed with a shovel = club); Anna Wintour (Egotist) (rifle); Penelope Croissant PhD (pistol, umbrella = club). Front Row: Harriet Tubman (rifle); Enid Blyton (Addict) (rifle). You can see I didn’t do too well when rolling for character traits. ⬆️ In the background is Sophie, who is along mostly for show as I have not yet figured out rules for using her on the tabletop. We’ll assume she is carrying expedition supplies, and the (experimental and unreliable) time travel mechanism ... Our little party will begin with a visit to the Land of Giants. The Land of Giants The time portal closed behind the hunters, and they looked cautiously around, Anna W...

My first (impromptu) side project for the year seems to have been building up a 28mm sci-fi skirmish force - the lads from the Flores Minor Ranger Corp. The first tranche of space-halflings where shown back in February . The rest of the compliment are now complete and I find myself with a neat pool of stunties and allies to take on all those too-talls out there.  The this time all the halflings are 1991 issue Games Workshop 40K ratlings with their rifles converted into shotguns and a chunky minigun. The wonderful resin bulldog is from Durgin Paint Forge. I LOVE him! Buckshot – Put that in your pipe and smoke it Snake Eyes – Anything but a 1! Point – First to land, last to leave Heavy – Layin’ down the cover Pup – Bark! Bark bark bark!